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dropping global temp tables

dropping global temp tables

2004-07-29       - By Mladen Gogala

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On 07/29/2004 03:43:08 PM, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> Sorry if this is the dumb question for the day, but how does
> one go about dropping the definition for a global temp
> table? DROP TABLE doesn 't do the job for me.

$ sqlplus scott/tiger

SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Thu Jul 29 17:15:09 2004

Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL > create global temporary table jonathan (a number)
2 on commit preserve rows;

Table created.

SQL > drop table jonathan;

Table dropped.

SQL >

Interesing thing is that global temporary tables are NOT preserved in the
recycle bin.

--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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